Kneeling firing, another pose of standing firing, NCOs, Officers and Casualties for the diorama project. Marching poses and a sapper will round them up. Afterwards, when we have some of our spent money back, we will go for artillery and cavalry.
History in 1/72
We are a group of Enthusiasts from all over the world, mostly Germany, who create historical battles in scale 1:72. As we do this since more than 10 years we thought it is time for our own blog. Being a historical enthusiast I wanted to fulfill my dream of producing my own figures in this scale too. So I started working with several sculptors to produce exotic figures in 1:72 which I fear nobody else would bring on the market.
Dienstag, 29. April 2025
Samstag, 19. April 2025
Frankfurter Bilderhandschrift - Reuss Infantryman 1810
One of my mates is working on a book on the Frankfurter Bilderhandschrift.
Maybe you know some of the plates from the old British "Tradition magazine".
The idea was to produce the "figure for the book". Here the result
I put this file into Myminifactory and try to cover some costs. It is best printed in 54mm and 75mm.
Later I will ask our painter to change the poses into the usual combat- or maching poses.
Germans in Spain with their ragged cloth from the Frankfurter Bilderhandschrift are a source of good ideas for the future. For example these two guys from the Schwarzburg Contingent
We have seen so many ragged uniform from the French side of the war (El Guil series), but so far Haythornewaith (I hope to prononce it correctly:-)) is the only one who showed ragged British troops.
Maybe another idea for the future...
Sonntag, 23. März 2025
Here the next 3D-Masters of our SYW/AWI project
When Patrick printed the charging Hessian Musketeers for me, I painted one as Freikorps Wunsch for my Korbitz project and sent him this very bad photo through WhattsApp. In the middle the printed figure, the other two Art-Miniaturen.
His answer was, he is thinking about changing his own Kolin project, not using the Art-Miniaturen he has, but our own.
So we decided to create a complete range of SYW figures. We already have the Austrian Hussars and now you may call it as you want, we have new poses for the SYW, AWI, even some armies of the French Revolution.
We start with simple head conversions into Grenadiers
Next is a firing line in proper regular loading poses, all steps to load a musket coveed. These as Musketeers and Grenadiers too. BTW, the Musketeers don't have a mustache.
I am not sure, if we should produce them as Fusiliers too, but as for the poses, we will add NCO's, Casualties and a color group.
On the top of the pipeline is now the Artillery and SYW Prussian dragoons. Much more to follow.
The good thing with 3D-Files is, you can print them in any scale you want.
Freitag, 14. Februar 2025
Compagnie d' elite 3D vehicles and accesories
My mate Peter reorganized his webshop which you can now visit here
I just got his new Gribeauval material cart, very useful for my French Sappers.
Donnerstag, 6. Februar 2025
Sonntag, 26. Januar 2025
New 3D Hessen-Kassel or Prussian SYW infantry
My mate Markus Gärtner, who has published several books in the past contacted me and wanted to talk about figure production. Together we thought it a good idea to produce "the figures that go with the book".
Markus' favourite subject are the Germans in the American war of independence. His latest book is on sell with Berliner Zinnfiguren. So far only in German, but I hope they will think about an English version too.
So, now here having the Hessians published, we wanted to have the figures. Markus himself is a collector of 54mm figures and I told him, the advantage of 3D is, everybody can have them in his favorite scale.
So here you see our first joined project - Hessen-Kassel Musketeers charging American trenches in the AWI - or as I would say, a counter-attack of the Prussian Freebatallion Wunsch at Korbitz:-)
If you are interested in the figures, you can order them in our shop at Blackwatch
Donnerstag, 23. Januar 2025
Darek's latest work
While we have many posibilities with 3D these days, Darek is still working like in the old days with green stuff. I wish, I would be able to convert figures in this way.
Here we have what I would call Italian Cacciatori a caballo in 1813 and Eastern European (Rus) warriors 14th/15th century